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From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: 'git pull' complains that a locally resurrected directory would be overwritten by merge when no pulled changes are affecting that directory
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:41:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01514401-78f6-3fdc-aa74-c519fb6ab427@rawbw.com> (raw)

In the FreeBSD ports repository I resurrected the directory (that was 
removed a long time ago) with the command:

 > $ git checkout {hash}~1 -- math/polymake


I made local changes to this directory and called 'git add math/polymake'.

Then 'git pull' complained:

 > $ git pull
 > error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten 
by merge:
 >   math/polymake/Makefile math/polymake/distinfo 
math/polymake/files/patch-Makefile 
math/polymake/files/patch-support_install.pl math/polymake/pkg-descr 
math/polymake/pkg-plist


No incoming changes affect math/polymake. Nobody has created this 
directory simultaneously with me. There is no intersection with incoming 
changes.


Why does 'git pull' complain then?



Yuri



             reply	other threads:[~2021-08-24 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-24 16:41 Yuri [this message]
2021-08-25  1:05 ` 'git pull' complains that a locally resurrected directory would be overwritten by merge when no pulled changes are affecting that directory Jeff King
2021-08-25 15:42   ` Elijah Newren
2021-08-25 19:05     ` Jeff King
2021-08-25 21:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2021-08-27  1:05       ` Jeff King
2021-08-28  5:21         ` Elijah Newren
2021-08-25  5:43 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-08-25  5:47   ` Yuri

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